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House influencers: Daft Punk I am partially familiar with Daft Punk's work which is why I decided to pick them out of the house category. The group formed in 1993 when house music was beginning to become mainstream and chart-topping, and their work has influenced the direction that house music has gone since then. Their songs feature all the characteristics that house music should have, especially when it comes to the rhythms and bass lines. They have also had a number of music videos produced for their songs and actually have a series of animated videos that tell a short story about an alien band being brought to Earth, which I think is a perfect example of how they have incorporated technology into their music. They've basically turned their work into something like visual storytelling, and that to me is pretty cool. Dubstep: Skrillex I am also familiar with the work of Skrillex though I do find his music to be a bit too intense sometimes. I guess you could say I'm

Apparently I have an ongoing nature theme for all of my projects for this particular class because, for my video art project, I again decided to draw from the natural world around me. This time, however, I did actually take inspiration from Pipilotti Rist. Her visual art is absolutely stunning to me and I loved how she had incorporated the use of flowers in one of her video art pieces. She also put good use to layering, and I really wanted to try to do that for my video art piece, so I went out and shot a bunch of different videos of the plants and trees in the park, got a shot of the sky, and also one of the river as well as two of me walking down the sidewalk and through the grass. I imported my footage into Premiere and organized it so I could layer certain videos over each other; most of it was playing around with the opacity of each video. It took me a little while to put the whole video together, but I had fun making it and think it turned out pretty well. It may not be exactly s